Walking into Satellite Doughnuts, the brainchild of Kennebunkport, Maine, native Colby Kingston \u201918, you\u2019re immediately tantalized by a counter full of miniature treats, ranging from chocolate caramel coconut to lemon meringue. You might smell bacon cooking or see blueberry pie filling being made. In the back, you\u2019ll see Flipper, the doughnut robot, spitting out batter and turning the pastries.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s some insider knowledge about Kingston\u2019s business:<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing a Gen-Z who finds new food spots through social media <\/b>so frequently, the opportunity to actually start my own picture-perfect place is where it started. [I thought,] how crazy would it be if people wanted to Instagram what I was putting out to the world?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was really important to me to make a space that was Instagrammable.<\/b> My logo is enormous \u2014 it takes up an entire wall. I\u2019ve got lots of little photo opportunities, signs in the window that say funny things about doughnuts, in hopes that people will see how pretty they are and be urged to take a photo. That\u2019s been a huge driver of a lot of my business.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe best way to learn how to do something <\/b>is to pretend you know what you\u2019re doing. A lot of times people ask me, \u2018These are so good. How did you learn how to make doughnuts?\u2019 The Internet\u2019s a wonderful place.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think<\/b> anything miniature<\/b> that isn\u2019t normally served that way is going to have a great chance to rise in this environment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re really lucky that the Bush family <\/b>has their summer residence here in town, so a lot of different people come to visit them \u2014 Teri Hatcher (Desperate Housewives<\/i>) is one of those. She\u2019s a good friend of the Bushes, so she came last summer and actually brought the doughnuts home to President and Mrs. Bush.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWatching Brittany Buonocore O\u2019Connor \u201912 build Flour and Salt<\/b> (in downtown Hamilton) and knowing it as this bakery that my friends and I would special order things from our first and second years to becoming the full-blown caf\u00e9 that it is now, that continues to be very inspiring for me.\u201d<\/p>\n